Because of so many old-fashioned animated Television shows having made the jump towards the giant screen recently, this news that Captain Planet gets a cinematic makeover shouldn’t come as too large a surprise.
Cartoon Network is joining forces with production company Angry Filmworks to begin improvement of a live-action Captain Planet movie, in line with the popular environmental superhero animated series in the early 1990s.
Angry Filmworks is headed by producer Don Murphy and the partner, Susan Montford. Murphy worked behind the curtain on the 3 of Michael Bays’s Transformers movies, while both he and Montford are participating with this particular year’s other giant robot action flick, Real Steel.
For people not really acquainted with Captain Planet (or who’ve blocked memories from the series out of your mind), here’s some history on the program, from Cartoon Network’s official pr release:
‘Captain Planet’ Movie Being Produced by ‘Transformers’ Producer